Literary usage of Apparitor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Shakespeare's England: Or, Sketches of Our Social History of the Reign of by Walter Thornbury (1856)"The apparitor. — Song Seller. — Smoking. — No Allusion to it in Shakspere.
— Abuse of it. — Eulogies. — Methods of taking it. — King James's Pamphlet. ..."

2.History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)"A stranger had died in a house in St. Dunstan's belong- O f-> ing to a certain
John Fleming, and an apparitor had been sent " to seal his chamber and his ..."

3.The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1856)"A stranger had died in a house in St. Dunstan's belonging to a certain John
Fleming, and an apparitor had been sent ' to seal his chamber and his goods,' ..."

4.Shakspere's England; or, Sketches of our social history in the reign of by Walter Thornbury (1856)"The apparitor. — Song Seller. — Smoking. — No Allusion to it in Shakspere.
— Abuse of it. — Eulogies. — Methods of taking it. — King James's Pamphlet. ..."